Month: July 2021

Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: Many viewers are experiencing the Olympics primarily through TikTok, with some of the most-watched videos coming not from NBC but from athletes themselves   — 

Josh Centers / TidBITS: How Apple became an “antifragile” company, by building a diverse portfolio of products and performing even stronger during the pandemic than it did before   — 

Generic AI models can’t deliver the kind of accuracy we need for widespread adoption. We need more tailored solutions.Read More

This finding indicates the difficulty and complexity of understanding key cloud native security risks, along with how to counteract them.Read More

Gamification will prove to be the lever for the movie industry’s adoption of blockchain, further cementing the bond between film and gaming.Read More

Jaime Llinares Taboada / MarketWatch: UK’s CMA launches an inquiry into Facebook’s acquisition of Kustomer, investigating whether the deal violates the UK’s Enterprise Act 2002   —  The U.K. Competition

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: A look at the debate over Spotify’s Discovery Mode, whereby artists are prioritized for reduced royalties, a key way for Spotify to improve margins  

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Duolingo landed onto the public markets this week, rallying excitement and attention for the edtech sector and its founder cohort. The language learning business’ stock price soared when it began